Countries
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Zambia
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Zulu language
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3153
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1833
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Khmer
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
32 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moni
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
Zikomo
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
Muli bwanji?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
Usiku wabwino
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
Madzulo abwino
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
Masana abwino
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
M'mawa wabwino
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
Chonde
សូម
Sorry
pepani
សូរី
Bye
anatsanzikana
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
Ndimakukondani
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
Pepani
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Kasungu
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kikamtunda
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimaravi
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
Malawi, Zambia
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
12.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.17 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
12.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Nyanja
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
khmer central
German Name
Nyanja-Sprache
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtʃewa]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Chewa people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
15th Century
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Chewa
Modern Khmer
Language Position
271
1
120
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Signed Forms
Chewa Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ny
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nya
khm
ISO 639 2/B
nya
khm
ISO 639 3
nya
khm
ISO 639 6
nya
khm
Glottocode
nyan1308
khme1253
Linguasphere
99-AUS-xaa – xag
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating